Induced nuclear reactions: processes – systems – and elements – Fuel component structure – Plural fuel segments or elements
Patent
1986-02-06
1988-10-25
Terapane, John F.
Induced nuclear reactions: processes, systems, and elements
Fuel component structure
Plural fuel segments or elements
376438, 376442, 376462, C21C 330
Patent
active
047802731
ABSTRACT:
A nuclear reactor fuel assembly for accommodating mutually parallel rods disposed side by side therein includes a spacer formed of two mutually parallel grid sections, each of the grid sections including outer straps flatly facing the rods, each of the grid sections including main sleeves being positioned like positions of the same color in rows and columns disposed at right angles on a chess board leaving a free intermediate position between each two occupied positions, the main sleeves dividing the grid sections into grid mesh openings at the positions each able to receive a respective rod therein, each main sleeve in one of the grid sections being aligned with a main sleeve in the other grid section forming pairs of main sleeves, connecting straps each interconnecting the main sleeves of a pair of main sleeves forming contact springs for rods, each of the connecting straps having a width being smaller than the circumference of one of the main sleeves, and spacer sleeves each being disposed between and resting against two of the main sleeves in one of the grid sections.
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Greenberg Laurence A.
Kraftwerk Union Aktiengesellschaft
Lerner Herbert L.
Maples John S.
Terapane John F.
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